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Webster 1913 Edition

Crust

Crust

(kr?st)
,
Noun.
[L.
crusta
: cf. OF.
crouste
, F.
croûte
; prob. akin to Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] ice, E.
crystal
, from the same root as E.
crude
,
raw
. See
Raw
, and cf.
Custard
.]
1.
The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation;
as, a
crust
of snow
.
I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a
crust
of dross.
Addison.
Below this icy
crust
of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever.
Prescott.
2.
(Cookery)
(a)
The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
(b)
The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
(c)
The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; – also called
dumpling
.
Th’ impenetrable
crust
thy teeth defies.
Dryden.
He that keeps nor
crust
nor crumb.
Shakespeare
They . . . made the
crust
for the venison pasty.
Macaulay.
3.
(Geol.)
The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
4.
(Zool.)
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
5.
(Med.)
A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
6.
An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See
Beeswing
.

Crust

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crusted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Crusting
.]
[Cf. OF.
crouster
, L.
crustare
. See
Crust
,
Noun.
]
To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
The whole body is
crusted
over with ice.
Boyle.
And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood
Crusted
with bark.
Addison.
Very foul and
crusted
bottles.
Swift.
Their minds are
crusted
over, like diamonds in the rock.
Felton.

Crust

,
Verb.
I.
To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
The place that was burnt . . .
crusted
and healed.
Temple.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crust

CRUST

,
Noun.
[L., G.]
1.
An external coat or covering of a thing, which is hard or harder than the internal substance; as the crust of bread; the crust of snow; the crust of dross; the crust of a pie.
2.
A piece of crust; a waste piece of bread.
3.
A shell, as the hard covering of a crab and some other animals.
4.
A scab.
5.
The superficial substances of the earth are, in geology, called its crust.

CRUST

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cover with a hard case or coat; to spread over the surface a substance harder than the matter covered; to incrust; as, to crust a thing with clay; to crust cake with sugar; crusted with bark.
2.
To cover with concretions.

CRUST

,
Verb.
I.
To gather or contract into a hard covering; to concrete or freeze, as superficial matter.

Definition 2024

crust

crust

English

Noun

crust ‎(countable and uncountable, plural crusts)

  1. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
  2. The external layer of most types of bread.
  3. An outer layer composed of pastry
    • Dryden
      Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
    • Macaulay
      They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.
  4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
  5. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
  6. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
  7. (uncountable) Nerve, gall.
    You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVIII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
  8. crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)

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Verb

crust ‎(third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted)

  1. (transitive) To cover with a crust.
    • Boyle
      The whole body is crusted over with ice.
    • Felton
      Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
  2. (intransitive) To form a crust.

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Etymology

Latin crusta ‎(“hard outer covering”) via Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Proto-Indo-European *krus-to ‎(“that which has been hardened”), from *kreus ‎(“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr ‎(“scurf”), Old English hruse ‎(“earth”), Old High German hrosa ‎(“crust, ice”), Latvian kruwesis ‎(“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος ‎(krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος ‎(krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रुड् ‎(kruḍ, “thicken, make hard”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst

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